Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.
Acting
Grether's terrifying fragility masks monstrous neediness.
Direction
Stever's unflinching gaze refuses to look away first.
Cinematography
Bodies as architecture of desire and claustrophobia.
Director
Isabelle Stever
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a provocative wave of German cinema exploring taboo family dynamics with clinical detachment rather than melodrama.
The dance studio setting isn't incidental—ballet's history of body discipline, pain as beauty, and teacher-student power dynamics mirrors the film's core corruption.
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